Friday, March 12, 2010

Pierre Labossiere: Revolutionary Haitian History

Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, October 12, 2007.

Pierre Labossiere, a Haitian national, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, has been a long-time social-justice activist and advocate for the Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, currently exiled in South Africa. Pierre has also been active in the campaigns to free political prisoners in Haiti and the U.S.

Learn more at: www.haitisolidarity.net and www.haitiemergencyrelief.org

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Kiilu Nyasha is a revolutionary journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party. Through the end of 2009, Kiilu hosted a weekly TV program, "Freedom Is A Constant Struggle," on SF Live, and many shows are archived here. Beginning in May, 2012, "Freedom..." returned to the airwaves every first and third Thursday for a live half hour on BAVC Commons (SF). It can be streamed at http://www.bavc.org/public-access-tv/program-schedule/channel-76-stream. And archives can be found by searching the title at www.archive.org.

Kiilu writes for various online and print publications and her blog: kiilunyasha.blogspot.com.A former radio programmer, she has worked for KPFA (Berkeley), SF Liberation Radio, Free Radio Berkeley, and KPOO in SF. She can be contacted via email: Kiilu2@sbcglobal.net

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